file-roller and bzip files

[Mariano Draghi]

D. D. Brierton escribió:
> On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:06, Mariano Draghi wrote:
[...]
>>Yes, I know. And that works.
>>To put it more clear:
>>     tar -jcvf foo.tar.bz2 foo --> can be opened with file-roller
>>     tar -zcvf foo.tar.bz  foo --> CANNOT be opened with file-roller, it 
>>fails saying that the archive isn't a valid bzip2 archive, which is 
>>true, I mean, it is a bzip archive, not bzip2. The problem is that 
>>file-roller is doing a WRONG assumption.
> 
> No file-roller is assuming that the ".bz" suffix means that you used
> bzip2, whereas you have used gzip.
[...]
 >
 > But your archive are made with gzip, not bzip2! They should be named
 > foo.tar.gz!
 >
... I see. I suppose I have a very wrong naming-habit, and the previous 
file-roller version let me live with it ;)

/me feels REALLY stupid!

Now, I'm going to do some "find ..." and "mv ..." on my own tarballs (I 
still can't believe it!)

Regards,

-- 
Mariano